The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science , by Richard Holmes, has won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. I haven’t read it, nor is its galleys sitting atop a stack of books I hope to get to. But it does look awfully good, and the Royal Society obviously agrees…Any Loom readers have a review to offer?
Update: I should really have entitled this, Congratulations, Richard Holmes. Books don’t appreciate good wishes very much.
Originally published September 16, 2009. Copyright 2009 Carl Zimmer.